Several Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes on different areas in Gaza

GAZA, Aug. 22 (YPA) – Several of civilians were killed and injured as a result of the continuous Israeli airstrikes on different areas in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources reported on Thursday.

In the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, 11 people were killed and others were injured at dawn in an Israeli shelling that targeted a house belonging to the Hamouda family in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.

Most of the victims were children and women and their bodies arrived at Kamal Adwan Hospital charred while others are still under the rubble, according medical sources.

In the Tal al-Zaatar area in Jabalia, north of the Strip, three citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of the occupation shelling a residential apartment belonging to the Salman family.

As for the city of Khan Yunis, a child and a woman were killed as a result of an Israeli missile shelling that targeted a house belonging to the Abu Daqqa family in the al-Fakhari area, east of the city.

Meanwhile, the occupation also opened fire at the tents of the displaced people in Mawasi al-Qarara, northwest of Khan Yunis.

A number of citizens were also injured when the occupation forces bombed a house belonging to the Al-Judaili family in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, while the occupation forces’ artillery shelled the northwest of the camp and the Al-Maghraqa area.

The occupation forces’ artillery fired its shells intensively, coinciding with heavy gunfire on the neighborhoods of Tal Al-Hawa, Al-Zeitoun, and Al-Sabra in Gaza City, amid intense flying of occupation drones.

The occupation forces’ warplanes launched raids east of the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, and blew up residential buildings west of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

@E.Y.M